*book* June 11, 2009

So I finally read the Da Vinci code. By Dan “lets state the freaking obvious” Brown.

While I like a good conspiracy theory, and the tidbits about the alternate “Jesus hooked up with Mary Magdalene and bred” idea and other bits associated with it appealed to my “question authority” side that ponders organised religion in general, and the version of the book I have was the special pretty illustrated edition with all the nice photos of the paintings and churches etc which I liked too look at (speshly for the “I’ve been there”factor), The Da Vinci Code was a realllllllyyy shittly written book – seriously I don’t know what people were raving about! I actually came to the conclusion that TDVC might have been the result of the “1000 monkeys with 1000 typewriters” concept. Really.

Anyway, if you haven’t yet read the book (I may have actually been the last person to do so though going on the general consensus), do NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES HAND OVER YOUR HARD EARNED CASH for a copy, if you must read it then hit the library, but be prepared for a read that has every.freaking.point.spelled.out.to.you.and.absolutely.no.suspense.whatsoever.and.a.very.poorly.plotted.storyline. (I could go on, but I can’t be bothered now).

I hope I never have to read another Dan Brown book again.

The.End.

*review* April 7, 2009

so I didn’t much like The Time Travellers Wife.

If you haven’t read it and wish to, then stop reading here, but the rest of this post contains my brief review which may spoil it for you…

It was an interesting concept for a story overall (I liked the idea of the majority of the time travel “rules” etc that she established for Henry; some of the dialogue was witty, and I laughed a few times), but I just couldn’t get into the details of it. Perhaps if they had creepy middleaged Henry visting kiddie Claire later in the book after letting more of Henry’s back story before he met clare unfold story unfold, then I might have been able to become more interested instead of being a bit creeped out from almost the beginning. And the bit where Henry’s dad catches teen henry and teen henry in teen henry’s room – ewww. And why could henry “cheat: by going ahead to find the numbers to win lotto etc and give out bits of info some times, and then not at others…that just WASN’T explained properly fo me – unless I missed that bit from skim reading the last 150 pages (yes I know, cardinal book reading sin, so shoot me…) to get to where Henry “dies” then read the last few pages properly just so I could get it finished. And the stereotypes – gosh I really wanted to smack the author at times.
Anyway, nuff said. Book is finished. I probably also didn’t like it becasue it had been raved about so much, I had high expectations for it

Thank goodness one of the bookworms had kindly lent it to me so I could read it, I would have been right miffed if I had have purchased a copy instead!

Anyway, the Great Gatsby is my next read, if it arrives tomorrow. Otherwise I’ll be delving into one of the pile next to my bed.

Night night!

*SATURDAY* April 4, 2009

Things that are great about Saturday.

1. A “slight” sleep in till 7.15 when the Destroyer arose – it gives me hope now that when the clocks go back the will be up at 6.15. Which is bearable when put in context that he has been getting up at six freaking 15 this week – I had been shuddering at the thought of this continuing into non-DLS time when it would be a hellish 5.15 in the morning. The worst part of that scenario is that he starts yawning at 8am saying he is still tired. STAY IN BED ASLEEP THEN I say. To which he says. NO. simple. (argh the joys of negotiation with an almost 3 year old).

2. PJ’s till 11.15 (at least – I am still in them now as I type – I daresay a nudge towards 11.30 wouldn’t be pushing it!!)

3. A lovely big fry up brekkie consisting of pancakes (penguin pancakes from the sunbeam waffle maker), grilled bacon (rindless shortcut, cooked but not crispy please), free range eggs fried in just a touch of canola spray so they aren’t greasy (still slightly runny yolks thanks so much), some pine/orange juice (in a tall glass with ice), and having my mum & dad, and the princess’ friend “the Bee” (as the destroyer calls her) all eating with us as they stayed over last night.

4. Going to a little Stampin Up get together this arvo – taking the Princess and The Bee with me, the destroyer has gone to the big town over with his dad to get some new points for air seeder. Which brings me to the next good thing about Saturday…

5. IT RAINED last night so there are still lovely puddles around the place – we lucked out under a storm where we nearly had an inch of rain – when a couple of neighbours barely had any (and another had none at all). But we’ll take it, the Farmer can even get started on the cropping Monday when the water has had a bit of time to sink in. Can everyone please request that this sort of rain continues throughout the year!! PLEASE!

6. We will be having take out chinese for dinner tonight which I shall be brining home with us after going to the SU get together. Yum. My fave is Braised Chicken & Vegetables (no onion or cauliflower, extra broccoli please!).

8. The weather has cooled off nicely after the festy humidity of yesterday – I love warm sunny days and cold nights where you need the doona on.

9. ummmmm. Just being Saturday is freaking great in itself!

10. I’ll think of something later to be 10. The day is nowhere near being done yet!

have a fab weekend kids!

*stuff* April 2, 2009

1. I rode 3.7 km’s on my bike. My dog Moe the Ferocious tagged along. He was a tad exhausted by the end of it!

2. Going to watch True Blood (the encore version for this week) in about 1.5 hrs or so. Yay.

3. New category stories is up – the 1st April Category is “Bedtime Rituals”. Come along and check it out at www.categorystories.wordpress.com – we have a totally rad sponsor too, the Paper Pixie   etsy store!

4. This is what I did done make for said 1st April Category….mainly using a Q-Tea kit from earlier this year, with a few other random bits added on.

5. I am currently reading the book The TIme Travellers Wifeand it will be the 11thbook I have read so far this year. The book is creeping me out though at the moment – not sure if I like it or not. I did however recently read both The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, and both were freaking AMAZING books – do read if you can!

6. I can’t wait until my 4th Cousin (once removed) Barak Obama comes to our BBQ. He and Michelle are a bit busy in London at the mo, dodging angry purlons hurled by feisty feral mob type folks. So after all the London-eydramatics, I’m sure they’d both be up for a coldie and a snag on their way back home….and some Changs Cruncy Noodle salad.***

7. Each of these points references a number in them. Including this one with a random number 9 (that is my fave number).

Have a happy happy pre-weekend kids!

L.

OH just gotta share this I found today when I wastrawling the net for shirtless hotties to share on the hot guy thread at SIS researching ocean wildlife for a school assignment.

Fine specimen hey. He is apparently called the Gerardius Bulteriam. Very rare.

 

 

• ** yes, for those who have emailed me, I did in fact figure that the email was an April Fools joke – even if it did arrive to my inbox after 12noon on the 1st. It just really really REALLY pisses me off that facebook is spamming people like that – I have a low opinion of facebook already (security failings, accessibility issues, general spam eminating from there), so having another junk email to wade through yesterday just got me rather shitty. AND I still didn’t (and refuse to) click the link!!